ID 1028562
Lot 249 | Dawson Turner family | albums of etchings and sketches, 19th century, with The Turner Family, 1907
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
i. Mary Dawson Turner. One hundred etchings. Not published. [Great Yarmouth, 1830]. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to "Joseph Dalton Hooker | in remembrance of his affectionate Grandmother | Mary Turner", one of 49 copies printed, 4to (341 x 251mm.), letterpress title, list of plates, 100 etched plates, plus one further duplicate plate loosely inserted, contemporary maroon quarter morocco, scattered spotting and marginal damp-staining, lacking upper cover, extremities rubbed
ii. Dawson Turner family. Album of etchings and sketches, early 1800s. 4to (294 x 224mm.), containing 7 etchings, 35 sketches (many executed in pencil, some in ink) and one watercolour, many with pencil annotations, nineteenth century boards, some leaves detached or becoming detached, some spotting and marginal damp-staining, lacking spine, extremities rubbed
WITH MANUSCRIPT DEDICATION FROM JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER TO HIS YOUNGEST SON ("To Reginald H. Hooker | From his father J.D. Hooker. | May 19. 1910""). The dedicatee was the civil servant, statistician, and meteorologist Reginald Hawthorn Hooker (1867-1944). The dedication dates from a year before J.D. Hooker's death at the age of 94. The etchings include Dawson Turner, Lady Palgrave, Mrs Dawson Turner, Lady Hooker by Mary Dawson Turner (1814), Elizabeth Turner (Lady Palgrave) by Mary Dawson Turner (1816), Lady Palgrave by Mary Dawson Turner (Oct. 1814) together with a pen and ink sketch of Miss Mary Turner by Lady Palgrave (Hampstead Mar. 17 1836), pencil sketch of a lady by Mary Turner, sepia watercolour and wash of Miss Mary Turner by Lady Palgrave (1835), pencil sketch of Harriet Sarah Turner, pencil sketch of Ellen Turner, a pen and ink sketch of the three Turner sisters in Mr Turner's study at Great Yarmouth (Oct. 1835), a pencil sketch of John Sell Cotman, and a watercolour of goldfish in a bowl by W. Fitch;
iii. Rev. Harward Turner, M.D. The Turner Family of Mulbarton and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk: 1547-1906. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1907. Enlarged edition, 4to (242 x 188mm.), half-title, photographic frontispiece, folding family pedigree charts, plates, errata slip, WITH MANUSCRIPT DEDICATION FROM JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER TO HIS ELDEST SON ("W.H. Hooker, from his affectionate father Jos. D. Hooker, Feb 22 1907"), i.e. William Henslow Hooker (1853-1942), original dark green half morocco by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich, sprinkled edges, light green endpapers, pedigree charts slightly creased at folds, binding rubbed and defective (lacking lower board)
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